A 27-year-old Oneida County woman is being accused of trying to hire a hit-man to kill her husband.

Rhinelander Police said 27-year-old Megan Danielczak was arrested Thursday after making a down payment with an undercover agent, who was posing as a hit-man. The money was given to the agent with the understanding that Danielczak’s husband would be killed, according to police. Police did not say how much she gave for a down payment, but that it was a mixture of money and property.

Investigators said Danielczak wanted to kill her husband because she is named as the beneficiary on his life insurance policy. Detectives were tipped off by a friend of the suspect.

Danielczak is being held on a $15,000 cash bond.

This is the second time in the last five years that a woman has been arrested in a murder-for-hire situation in central Wisconsin. A Merrill woman was convicted of trying to hire someone to kill her boyfriend. Jessica Strom was charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree intentional homicide, after investigators say she offered money and sex to a man to kill her boyfriend.

Former Duluth and Superior Mayor Herb Bergson was arrested this week after crashing his vehicle and leaving the scene, according to Douglas County Sheriff Tom Dalbec.

The 61-year-old Bergson was booked around 5:17 p.m. Tuesday, according to the county’s jail roster. Dalbec said Bergson’s vehicle left the road and crashed into a tree.

Dalbec said Bergson had left the scene, and deputies tracked him down at his cabin in Lake Nebagamon. Dalbec couldn’t immediately provide the location of the crash.

Bergson pleaded not guilty in Douglas County Court Wednesday on charges of obstructing an officer and not having an Ignition Interlock Device installed in his vehicle in connection with a previous OWI charge.

Bergson, who has a Madison address, most recently was jailed for a third DWI in 2014.

His first drunk-driving offense was in 2005 while serving as Duluth Mayor. According to police records in that case, he was cited for drunken driving after he crashed his car in Spooner.

Bergson served as Duluth Mayor from 2003-2007. He also served as Mayor of Superior in the 1980s.

Two 19 year-old men from Sturgeon Bay had loaded guns in their car, when arrested at a high school in Mequon last Saturday.

Police said Willard Hartman and Benjamin Krohn brought three assault rifles onto the campus of Homestead High School. Officers found the guns and drugs in the car, after pulling the men over for an illegal U-turn. Hartman and Krohn said they were in Mequon to watch a high school basketball tournament.

Mequon Superintendent Matthew Joynt said the two were not targeting anyone in Mequon, or at the high school.

Krohn said in the criminal complaint that he brought the guns “in case he wanted to trade or sell them to someone.”

One of Representative Ron Kind’s opponents for the upcoming Democratic primary has been arrested on an outstanding warrant in New York City.

The La Crosse Sherriff’s department says Juliet Germanotta was arrested Monday after they were tipped off by the NYPD that she was wanted for grand theft.

The charges stem from a September 2017 incident in which Germanotta purchased a $4,800 ring from a jewelry store. She’s then accused of returning to the store and returning a less valuable ring for a refund.

The 36-year-old, who announced her candidacy as a Democrat, will be extradited back to New York to face the charges.

The state Assembly has passed a bill that will allow some low-spending school districts to raise property taxes without a vote.

The legislation passed Tuesday on a 91-2 vote would apply to districts where voters have not rejected a property tax increase in the past three years. It’s expected about 100 districts would be eligible.

The bill would also increase the maximum that qualifying low-spending districts can spend on a combination of local property taxes and state aid per student.

Republican state Representatives Andre Jacque (R-De Pere) and Adam Jarchow (R-Balsam Lake) where the only two members to vote against the bill. It now heads to the state Senate.

The season remains open on Lake Winnebago, where 229 sturgeon have been registered so far. Koenigs says they expect the season on the big lake to stay open for the full 16 days due to poor water clarity.

Lake Winnebago could see a third sturgeon spearing season in a row that goes the full 16 days.

DNR Sturgeon Biologist Ryan Koenigs says they were out checking sites on the lake this week, and the water quality is very poor. “On average you’re probably only looking at 6-to-7 feet of visibility right now,” he says.

Koenigs says that’s “well below the threshold” that’s normally needed for those hoping to spear a sturgeon. Typically, visibility of around 12 feet is needed for there to be a high harvest on Lake Winnebago that can call an early end to the season.

Koenigs thinks there’s a good chance harvest caps will not be reached until close to the end of the season, if they are reached at all. The last two season Lake Winnebago have both gone the full 16 days.

Despite murky conditions on Lake Winnebago, he says water clarity is better on the shallower upriver lakes. “Reports I’m hearing from people out scouting is they can see bottom in most areas on the upriver lakes. But those lakes in general are a lot shallower, so you can get by and have a successful season with dirtier water.”